Editing Eclipse Comics (section)

====Early graphic novels====
Eclipse published one of the first original [[graphic novel]]s, and the first to be sold through the new "[[direct market]]" of comic-book stores,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milehighcomics.com/interviews/donmcgregor.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716194521/http://www.milehighcomics.com/interviews/donmcgregor.html |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |year=2001 |title=Interview with Don McGregor |first=Bob |last=Gough |publisher=MileHighComics.com |access-date=September 13, 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> ''[[Sabre (graphic novel)|Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species]]'' by [[Don McGregor]] and [[Paul Gulacy]]. Published on 30 September 1978 and previewed in ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]'', the book was a success. This led to the Mullaneys being contacted by [[P. Craig Russell]], McGregor's collaborator on [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Amazing Adventures#1970 series|Amazing Adventures]]''. Eclipse published Russell's experimental ''[[Night Music (comic)|Night Music]] 1'' in November 1979, by which time the company had also released a compilation of [[Fred Hembeck]]'s parody ''Dateline: @!!?#'' strips from ''[[The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom]]''.<ref name=TE1DM/> Russell later created comic adaptations of numerous operas for Eclipse.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/arts/conan-in-comics-yes-hulk-sure-but-fafner-wotan.html |title=Conan in Comics? Yes. Hulk? Sure. But Fafner? Wotan?|first=John |last=Rockwell|work= [[The New York Times]] |date= April 5, 1990 | archive-date= April 28, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150428221757/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/arts/conan-in-comics-yes-hulk-sure-but-fafner-wotan.html | url-status=live}}</ref> A more sophisticated logo was also commissioned from [[Tom Orzechowski]]; it remained the company's insignia for the rest of its existence, minor alterations aside. The profits earned to date were used to fund publication of McGregor's ''[[Detectives Inc.|Detectives, Inc.: A Remembrance of Threatening Green]]'' (with artist [[Marshall Rogers]]) and [[Steve Gerber]]'s ''[[Stewart the Rat]]''.<ref name=TE1DM/> In 1980, Mullaney moonlighted as co-editor of the brand-new hobbyist publication ''[[Comics Feature]]'', produced by [[Hal Schuster]]'s [[New Media Publishing]], but left after a year to focus on Eclipse.<ref name=bails>{{cite web |editor-last1=Bails |editor-first1=Jerry |editor-first2=Hames |editor-last2=Ware |url=http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=MULLANEY%2c+DEAN|title=Dean Mullaney|work=Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070511125517/http://www.bailsprojects.com/(S(4fltw0ymnr4dmf45dkrq1eao))/bio.aspx?Name=MULLANEY%2c+DEAN |archive-date=May 11, 2007 |url-status=live |access-date=November 25, 2020 }}</ref>